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Sarah Barry and her husband John Fairburn have donated money towards a prize in memory of her late father Maurice Maughan. The University will award the annual Maurice Maughan Prize to the best-performing first-year surveying student, in memory of the respected senior tutor who worked at UNSW’s School of Surveying from 1966 to 1975.

A team of 60 undergraduate students at UNSW Engineering has received more than $36,000 from an online crowd-funding campaign on Pozible, to enable them to transform their Sunswift solar-powered car into the world’s first road-worthy solar vehicle.

In 2010, Dr Tom Bee, a researcher in the stem cell laboratory at the UNSW Lowy Cancer Research Centre, died suddenly at the age of 27 from a rare genetic disorder – Ornithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency, when ammonia accumulates in the blood. After his death, his family established the Dr Tom Bee Stem Cell Research and Travel Fund to support UNSW medical researchers develop research links between the stem cell laboratory at the Lowy Cancer Research Centre and other centres internationally.

When Alex Boyarsky graduated with his MBA at UNSW in 1969, the University was just twenty years old, and the AGSM would not be established for another eight years. It was early days for management education in Australia, with few opportunities for international study exchanges.

Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) is a rare degenerative neurologic condition that affects both men and women, usually starting in their 50s or early 60s. About 2,500 Australians are suffering with it right now. At UNSW, Dr Michael Janitz and his six researchers are one of the few Australian scientific teams specialising in this condition.

UNSW Built Environment recently received two generous gifts; one a $10 million endowment to establish the Judith Neilson Chair, and another to create the Seidler Chair in Architecture Practice. The Judith Neilson Chair in Architecture will support the University’s research into the design of affordable housing, assisting more than 50 million people currently displaced globally by geo-political events and natural disasters.